48295 - Architectural and Urban Composition

Course contents

The final degree studio will start the second semester on April 2016, it will ends the first half of July for a total of 12 weeks.
The second part will be held on September and ends in March 2017. (Session degree)
The research conducted by graduate students will have as its objective the museum display of some archaeological sites identified within the geographical scope of Emilia-Romagna and Marche. The research will then give the possible answers regarding knowledge of historical and archaeological sites, the material condition of the finds, recovery, conservation and protection, their use within a specific path and consistent, to the possibility of an intervention on experimental archeology, with the definition of areas of exhibition, the theme of time thresholds, the system of spaces for teaching, testing labs, laboratories and archaeological deposits, the refreshment areas.
Graduating students will conduct research work individually or in groups composed of up to two people. In case of groups students will need to define clearly the contributions of individuals.
The working method consists in daily commitment in the classroom for the development of tables of analysis and design studies conducted through drawings and models coordinated with teachers. The processing is accompanied by the study of sources and critical essays regarding the topics covered in the workshop or indicated by the teacher, through benchmarking projects or projects related to the issues under investigation.
There will provided one or more study tours for taking direct view of the most recent and updated achievements regarding solutions related to the specific topic of the Laboratory.  NOTE 
For further informations of the issues listed above is desirable the participation to the International Seminar on Museography - International Prize of Architecture and Archaeology "Giambattista Piranesi" which takes place in Villa Adriana in Tivoli every year in the first two weeks of September. The Master degree in Architecture of the University of Bologna, recognizes students participating 4 credits. For further information on the International Seminar can be found at www.premiopiranesi.gmail.com 

Readings/Bibliography

A selected bibliography will be provided during the lessons. Recommended reading:

Etienne-Louis Boulée, Architecture. Essai sur l'art; a cura di H. Rosenau:Boullée's Treatise on Architecture, Alec Tiranti, London, 1953; a cura di L.-M. Pérouse de Montclos: Etienne-Louis Boullée Architecture. Essai sur l'art, Paris, 1968 (comprende altri scritti di Boullée); tr. it. Architettura Saggio sull'arte, introduzione di Aldo Rossi, Padova, 1967, pp. 72-74.

Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy, Dictionnaire d'Architecture, Encyciopédie méthodique, I, Paris, 1789; 2 voll, 1832; tr. it.: Dizionario Storico di Architettura, Fratelli Negretti, Mantova, 1842-1844, voceMonumento, pp. 143-144; voce Galleria, pp.  ulteriore traduzione italiana parziale a cura di Valeria Farinati e Georges Teyssot, Dizionario storico di architettura. Le voci teoriche, Marsilio, Venezia, 1985, p. 234.

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, L'architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des moeurs et de la législation, Paris, 1804; una seconda edizione postuma con l'aggiunta di altre tavole, a cura di Daniel Ramée, fu pubblicata nel 1847; rist. anast; in 2 voll. di entrambe le edizioni: Paris, 1961; rist. anast. dell'ed. 1804: Hildesheim, 1980, Nördlingen, 1981.

Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand, Recueil et parallèle des édifices de tous genre, anciens et modernes, Paris, 1800 (ed. accresciuta a cura di J. g. Legrand:Raccolta e parallelo delle fabbriche classiche di tutti i tempi..., Venezia, 1833).

Paul Planat, Encyclopedie de l'architecture et de la construction, voll. V,  parte 2ª, Aulanier et C.ie, Paris, 1889-92 . voce Musée vol. V, pp. 736-746 eMuseum vol. V, pp. 746-753.

Julien Guadet , Elements et théorie de l'architecture , Paris 1901 - 04, u.e. 1929 - 30, vol. 2, capitolo VII, Les edifices d'instruction publique, pp. 327-379.

Daniele Donghi, Manuale dell'architetto, voll. 10, UTET, Torino, 1905-1935, vol.II, Parte I, Sez. V, pp. 1-208.

Luciano Semerani,, Dizionario, critico illustrato delle voci più utili all'architetto moderno, C.E.L.I., Faenza, 1993, voce Museo, pp. 114-125.

Nikolaus Pevsner, A History of building types, Washington D.C., 1976, ed italiana Storia e caratteri degli edifici, Palombi, Roma, 1986, pp.137-167.

Luca Basso-Peressut (a cura di), I luoghi del museo. Tipo e forma tra tradizione e innovazione, Arsenale, Roma, 1985.

Virgilio Vercelloni, Museo e comunicazione culturale, Jaka Book, Milano, 1994.

Patrizia Montini Zimolo, L'Architettura del Museo con scritti e progetti di Aldo Rossi, Città Studi Edizioni, Milano, 1995.

Frances A. Yates, L' arte della memoria, Einaudi, Torino, 1996.

Teaching methods

The course will be organized in two parts, the first of theoretical research, the second of implementation of concepts learned in the first part by the production of an architectural project.
The first part will be held a series of lectures and illustration of examples. The lessons will be joined by regular meetings with individual students and some group seminars on the progress of the work in which will also participate outside lecturers. Bibliographies on specific topics will be provided weekly. Students, in the first part of the course, will be asked to study architecture of a museum or of an archaeological site. Students then will be asked to redesign the architectural elements by using plans, sections and elevations. This is done in order to understand the hierarchical relationships existing or the ratio of public places of the city and the museum itself. In the second part, the student must prepare a project in a specific archeological area.

Assessment methods

For the completions of the Laboratory, each student will have to develop a project.
Will also be part of the final exam exercises assigned by teachers of different disciplinary contributions during the semester.

Teaching tools

Digital video projector, PC, overhead projector, laboratory for classroom exercises, printers and plotters A0

Office hours

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